{"product_id":"9781434437600","title":"En Route to the Great Eastern Circus and Other Essays on Circus History","description":"William L. Slout, entertainment historian par excellence, here provides five fascinating essays on the development of the American traveling circus in the post-Civil War era: \"En Route to the Great Eastern Circus\" (on the creation of this great show); \"The Great Eastern Circus of 1872\" (more details about one of P. T. Barnum's rivals); \"The Not-So-Great Trans-Atlantic Circus and Menagerie\" (how a show failed suddenly in a yellow fever epidemic); \"What Goes Up...Comes Down\" (how balloning became part of the circus environment); and \"The Chicken or the Egg?\" (on the first development of the double-ring act pioneered by Barnum and others). These vivid essays, highlighted by numerous contemporaneous excerpts from local newspapers, help bring a long-forgotten era alive again.","brand":"Wildside Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47128077762800,"sku":"9781434437600","price":6.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781434437600_p0.jpg?v=1763754072","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781434437600","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}